Cisco is acquiring service assurance firm Accedian

US networking giant Cisco is set to strengthen its service assurance offering with the acquisition of Canadian network optimisation specialist Accedian.
For some reason the announcement has been made via a Cisco blog, rather than the more conventional press release. It framed the move as ‘accelerating high performance service assurance’. The stated rationale is fairly superficial, merely stressing that it’s important to make digital experiences as robust as possible and that th